![]() ![]() Visit the Algonquin Hotel’s website for more info on the Round Table. I highly recommend this one if you enjoy a little humor with your mystery. ![]() I loved the banter between Dorothy and Peter – they reminded me a bit of Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby. Once I figured out who everyone was though, I really enjoyed it. The mystery was good, and the characters were larger than life, but there were so many characters that it did get a little confusing at first. At these luncheons they engaged in wisecracks, wordplay and witticisms that, through the newspaper columns of Round Table members, were disseminated across the country. Gathering initially as part of a practical joke, members of “The Vicious Circle”, as they dubbed themselves, met for lunch each day at the Algonquin Hotel from 1919 until roughly 1929. The Algonquin Round Table was a celebrated group of New York City writers, critics, actors and wits. So who were they? Here’s a brief description from Wikipedia: ![]() Several members of the Algonquin Round Table are featured or make at least a brief appearance in this story. She has plenty of help from her friends Peter Benchley and a visiting Billy Faulkner. From Round Table, to speakeasy, and all over the city of New York, Dorothy Parker has to chase down a murderer before the police try to pin the crime on her or one of her gang. When the members of the Algonquin Round Table gathered for lunch, the last thing they expected to find was the dead body of a theater critic under their table. ![]()
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